Okay, let me go through this one in simple English. If the Land and Mineral director was not lying, these are what he basically said;

1. Johor BN government under TS Abdul Ghani Othman gazetted Pulau Kukup as part of the State National Park on March 27 1997.
- Yay, I'm a Ghani's fan. He's a good guy. This whole shit would not have happened if he is still the Johor MB. But the current Sultan of Johor doesn't like him very much, and most people know that.

2. Johor BN government with DS Khaled Nordin as MB made the decision to give the land to Sultan of Johor on March 7 2018.
- So, my suspicion that something was not right with Khaled's administration since he took over in 2013 was right. Read back my posts from back then if you don't believe me. The links were at the start of this post.

3. The de-gazetting of Pulau Kukup was on Oct 25 2018 and officially given to the Sultan on Oct 29 2018.
- Well, Pakatan took over Johor on May 9 2018. So, that dastardly Khaled's BN administration made the decision to give Pulau Kukup to the Sultan in March, then Osman Sapian's Pakatan administration actually de-gazetted and handed the island over to the Sultan in October. See, I told you all that nothing change. Actually which is worse, deciding to give away the island or actually giving away the island?

4. The letter which convey the decision to de-gazette Pulau Kukup was given to the Johor National Park director on Aug 5 2018 and the draft to de-gazette the island was checked and edited by the State Legal Advisor on Aug 8 2018.
- And the exco said the Pakatan's Johor government didn't know anything about it before the whole mess went viral. Come on la. Land and mineral affairs come directly under the MB's office the last time I checked. Eh, and anything done after Pakatan took over Johor on May 9 is Pakatan's doing. They know the whole thing was bad yet they carried on with it. Why?

5. The State Land and Mineral director said "ianya dipercayai" (it is believed to be) that the whole thing is going to be fine.
- So, that's the rationale of the Pakatan's State government.,,,,okay, never mind. I don't want to continue further because if I do then this post could be deemed as seditious and I would most likely end up in jail. So that's that.
Ciao.

excerpts;Boo, who was also the previous Skudai assemblyman, cited the announcement in the Johor State Government Gazette Volume 62 (22) Item 3808 dated October 25, 2018 under Subsection 3(3) of the National Parks (Johor) Corporation Enactment 1989.

In fact, it was amongst one of the first articles that made me realise that that Pakatan supporters and UMNO supporters (which you were at that time, although now I dont know lah) can sometimes share common aims, in this case, the environment.

Anyway, I hope that both Pakatan and UMNO supporters, at large, put aside their political differences and speak up on this matter of de-gazetting Ramsar sites

The Johor Pakatan govt should be ashame of itself for de-gazetting the Ramsar sites.

I could probably write a lot more but I have been on the go-go-go for the last 14 hours, plus, unusually for me, I had 4 beers and a massively huge meal to finish off the day.

Right now, I feel fat and lazy, so I am going to have an early one tonight.

That one is politics before people. The review committee already said Lynas is ok but they still need to justify their anti-Lynas campaign. It helped won them elections. Last time they said it's radioactive, now the waste pulak.

Just pointing out, if you want to show concern for environment, at least be consistent : )

Otherwise we'll be back to your Stealing Is Bad, But Umno Stealing Is Good!

Did you complain about the eco impact of Forest City?

"The 1,386 ha total area of the four islands is nearly four times the size of Sentosa.

The company had earlier proposed to reclaim one giant island amounting to about 2,000 ha, then scaled that down to four islands spanning 1,623ha.

Enclosed within the four proposed islands would be a seagrass bed known as Merambong Shoal. CGPV said the seagrass bed is rich in biodiversity and home to endangered species such as seahorses and dugong.

A temporary access road from the mainland to the first partially reclaimed island has "split the (seagrass) ecosystem into two", the DEIA report revealed.

Merambong Shoal is considered one of the most important seagrass beds in Peninsular Malaysia, said the DEIA report, adding that it "will be heavily impacted by the proposed development".

Though the plan is for this access road to be removed, damage to the seagrass bed will be hard to control given the area's close proximity to the project, said the report."

Kesian the dugongs, they have no Birkins to cheer themselves up even though they look like the former de facto PM...

Anon 10:14Search the archive of this blog under "reclamation" to read what I wrote about the development along the Tebrau Straits during the previous Johor government. Don't be such a malicious lazy asshole. Thank you.

Anon 11:25, Anon 11:32I know that you are the same personYou said I deleted comments, so I deleted your comments lah. And I will delete your future comments because you are clearly a malicious asshole.

"The Lynas rare earth ­refinery in Gebeng, Kuantan, will be allowed to continue operating provided it removes and disposes its processing by-products from the country, particularly the controversial water leach purification residue.

The Environment, Science, Tech­nology and Climate Change Minis­try, which announced the decision, said the government will allow Lynas to renew its future licence and permission if the company complies with two pre-­conditions for the management of its wastes.

“The ministry is concerned with the increasing risk arising from the continued accumulation of residue without a viable solution to manage the accumulation in the near term,” it said.

It said Lynas must remove the accumulated 451,564 metric tonnes of “water leach purification residue” (WLP), which contains radioactive materials, from Malaysia.

"This was proven when the executive committee report on the operations of LAMP published on Tuesday noted that there was an increase in heavy metal concentration such as nickel, chromium, lead and mercury in the ground water, she said.

Nickel and chromium, she added, were carcinogenic substances.

Fuziah said this proved that the storage of radioactive waste at the LAMP site had contaminated the ground water.

“I am angry, sad and disappointed. Imagine, for so long we have allowed them to store their waste on site and now it is proven that their waste has migrated into the water.

“We don’t want (to see) 20 years down the road that there’s a sudden increase in cancer cases. Who will pay for it?” she asked during a press conference yesterday.

She stressed that Lynas must keep its promise, made in 2012, to send the residue from its rare earth plant in Gebeng back to Australia."

So an independent panel of scientists concluded that there's been severe contamination of water.

If you want to selectively pick on stuff, why not ask yourself which BN lawmaker tried to protect Kuantan from Lynas?

On a more serious matter, I don't know how the de-gazetting process works but I suspect it happens in the State Parliament.

As far as I am concerned, for the current Johor State Exco to say that they didn't know anything about it sounds quite farfetch to me.

It is simply no good blaming the previous Johor UMNO/BN administration for starting the de-gazetting process if it was the CURRENT Johor Pakatan administration which actually de-gazetted the Ramsar sites.

The current Johor Pakatan administration needs to come up with a better explanation.

Frankly, as a Pakatan supporter, I am embarrassed at how the community has been fucked over by the loss of these Ramsar sites under a Pakatan administration.

I put on par with 1MDB - seriously, I do.

It is environmentally and socially criminal!!!

For those who do not understand the implications of a Ramsar designated wetland, think of it as a World Heritage classification.

Anon 10:18Search the archive of this blog under "reclamation" to read what I wrote about the development along the Tebrau Straits during the previous Johor government. Don't be such a malicious lazy asshole. Thank you.

Ah Annie the last time Utusan made noise, some people were summoned. But because it was an UMNO government, Utusan's "derhaka" was buried. How do you expect Pakatan to say no when even UMNO couldn't say no. 2 x 5 = 5 x 2.... hahahahaha sometimes choice is really no choice at all.

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